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I honestly thought that at launch they would drop away the metal panels to reveal a kickass vehicle underneath.
Nope. That's actually the thing.
lolwtf
I love taking the wind out of Elon's sails because he is just a horrible and cringe person to an extreme degree, but I personally like the cybertruck aesthetically. It definitely different from anything we have seen in a truck, and I'm all for it. It's also basically a concept car that is somehow actually making it to market, and if it motivates the bigger auto makers to take more chances with their designs and ideas, I think it's great.
That said, its so ludicrously expensive, and so impractical/not advisable for all the reasons I would personally use a truck, because it's basically an SUV with a bed. It's like a Chevy Avalanche/Honda Ridgeline mashup. This thing is the ultimate pavement princess. If there's one thing I wouldn't be an early adopter for, it's something thats whole purpose is to get beat the fuck up.
It really does just look like a Lamborghini you'd get on an N64 if you didn't have the expansion pack.
I really can't fathom anyone seriously thinking this is good aesthetically without assuming they have a serious bias affecting their judgement in form of payment, cognitive deficiency, misplaced Musk sympathy, or otherwise.
Other auto makers are doing just fine with their designs overall, we don't need to include children's scribbles of a car when talking about where car designs should be headed.
I can't really fathom that anyone seriously thinks that aesthetic preferences are uniform across all people without biases similar to what you listed.
All those SUVs designs sure are strikingly different.
There's aesthetic differences stemming from simple original taste, then there's differences stemming from being on the challenged side of the bell curve. Like smearing poop on a wall and trying to call it art.
Nice straw-man example at the end, there.
Show me on the cybertruck where Elon touched you.
On the entire cybertruck
I can understand liking the idea of the cyber truck but its aesthetic is so different from convention that I think people need to see it in person to decide if they like it.
There are so many things in it that are different in ways that might be better it is hard for me to imagine it selling well.
they also might be mediocre, or much worse. Given Tesla's record of bad/rushed design and manufacturing processes (see: bad panel alignment; bad chassis engineering; janky bandaid fixes like random hardware store supplies making it into their cars; failed and costly manufacturing automation mistakes; etc.),
And Musk's record of using the same trick of dangling a new gimmick to fix cash flow over and over (make wild new promise to create hype, while not delivering on the old ones, see: hyperloop, full self-driving feature, etc)
And how he's been steadily going off the deep end for years (gestures generally)
I don't really have hope that this isn't the ludicrous gimmick it stinks of.